Homicide investigators will fan out across the neighbourhood surrounding the Newton Arena this week, searching for clues into the fatal “unprovoked” beating of a 53-year-old mother that has shocked the community and drawn attention to the crime-riddled area. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has received about 20 tips from the public about Sunday night’s fatal attack on Julie Paskall in the arena parking lot, but investigators will canvass homes and businesses all day Thursday and Friday and put out flyers asking for the public’s assistance, according to IHIT spokesman Sgt. Adam MacIntosh.

Homicide investigators will fan out across the neighbourhood surrounding the Newton Arena this week, searching for clues into the fatal “unprovoked” beating of a 53-year-old mother that has shocked the community and drawn attention to the crime-riddled area. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has received about 20 tips from the public about Sunday night’s fatal attack on Julie Paskall in the arena parking lot, but investigators will canvass homes and businesses all day Thursday and Friday and put out flyers asking for the public’s assistance, according to IHIT spokesman Sgt. Adam MacIntosh.

Mounties say a Surrey man will likely face several charges after a destructive weekend that included smashing a large stolen truck into six police cruisers and flooding a section of Burnaby Hospital by ripping the head from an emergency room fire sprinkler.

Mounties say a Surrey man will likely face several charges after a destructive weekend that included smashing a large stolen truck into six police cruisers and flooding a section of Burnaby Hospital by ripping the head from an emergency room fire sprinkler.

Despite what Reza Moazami had promised, there was no lavish life for the tiny 18-year-old he’d lured into prostitution only days after she was kicked out of a drug rehab centre. Moazami is charged with 36 counts that include human trafficking, sexual interference, sexual exploitation and living off the avails of prostitution. Because the victims were aged 14 to 18 at the time of his arrest, none can be named.

A young woman paralyzed in a Kelowna shooting two years ago is suing the gangsters charged in the case. Leah Hadden-Watts filed the lawsuit against Jujhar Singh Khun-Khun, Michael Kerry Jones and Jason Thomas McBride on Aug. 14 — the second anniversary of the deadly shooting, which also left Red Scorpion gangster Jonathan Bacon dead.

After Jonathan Barber was shot to death in May 2008, alleged killer Troy Tran admitted to an associate that he mistakenly believed he hit Jamie Bacon because all “white guys” look the same. Tran, a Calgary gangster linked to the Fresh Off the Boat Killers (FK), was regularly in B.C. in the company of United Nations leader Clay Roueche and others in the gang behind a lengthy conspiracy to murder the Bacon brothers and their Red Scorpion associates.

A Calgary gangster arrested at Vancouver airport last week was recently added to an indictment alleging his involvement in a United Nations gang plot to kill the Bacon brothers, The Vancouver Sun has learned. Billy Ly was picked up by the Canada Border Services Agency after arriving on a flight from Asia. He is now in jail in Calgary charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon for a near-fatal stabbing of a rival gangster in Calgary on April 23.

Disturbing online comments posted last fall by terrorism suspect John Nuttall would have provided the RCMP with sufficient grounds to launch the investigation that led to charges this week, legal experts said Thursday.

Cyber criminals can infiltrate computers and corporate networks in a variety of ways, including the use of “malware” — malicious software that can be downloaded to computers without the users ever knowing — and “social engineering” — which amounts to tricking computers users into revealing passwords and other confidential data.

The B.C. government has paid out millions of dollars to prisoners in provincial jails to settle lawsuits filed in just over four years, The Vancouver Sun has learned. According to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, more than $3.5 million was paid to 34 inmates between Jan. 1, 2008 to March 31, 2012.

A gangster who suffered severe brain damage in a prison beating last August had no memory months later of being charged with kidnapping, assault and use of a firearm. While Jesse John Margison made some improvement after the brutal attack in North Fraser Pretrial jail, he is still unfit to stand trial, according to a B.C. Review Board ruling, a copy of which was obtained this week by The Vancouver Sun.

The Vancouver police officer under investigation for punching a cyclist in the face was given an award of excellence five years ago by British Transit police for bravely apprehending a violent man suffering from mental illness on London’s underground. London-born Ismail Bhabha joined the VPD in 2008, the same year he received an award of excellence from the British Transport Police Federation for coming to the rescue of a woman and her daughter being attacked by a disturbed man. Bhabha, off duty at the time, confronted the man and was bitten in the cheek during the ensuing struggle.

Fashion, philanthropy, inspiration and funny seamlessly blended together March 6 at Hotel Arts at Love Her — a fundraiser and friend-raiser in support of Ovarian Cancer Canada. There is nothing funny about ovarian cancer, however, as late detection results in five-year survival rates of less than 30 per cent. Further, there is no effective screening test for ovarian cancer and every year 1,750 Canadian women die from the disease.

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